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By: Jaclyn Moriarty

Part of series: Ashbury/Brookfield Part 4

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  • CategoryYoung Adult
  • LanguageEnglish
  • Pages480
  • Published2009
  • File size1.4 MB
  • FormatPDF
  • ISBN9780545069724

Key ideas from the book

  • The story explores relationships among students at an exclusive New South Wales high school.
  • Student essays and committee notes create a layered documentary-style narrative.
  • The novel connects modern school life with Australian history from the early 1800s.
  • A young Irishman transported to Australia forms the book’s central historical connection.
  • Readers interested in young adult fiction, school stories, and ghost stories may find it appealing.

About The Ghosts of Ashbury High by Jaclyn Moriarty

Jaclyn Moriarty’s young adult novel is presented through student essays, scholarship committee notes, and other written documents. Together, these materials reveal the relationships and tensions among students at an exclusive high school in New South Wales.

The school’s modern-day world is linked to the story of a young Irishman transported to Australia in the early 1800s. Combining school life, interpersonal relationships, Australian history, and a ghost-story element, the novel will suit readers who enjoy unconventional narrative forms and mysteries that connect the present with the past.

About Jaclyn Moriarty

Jaclyn Moriarty is an Australian author best known for her imaginative, emotionally perceptive novels for young adults. Her Ashbury/Brookfield series includes Feeling Sorry for Celia, Finding Cassie Crazy, The Year of Secret Assignments, and Becoming Bindy Mackenzie, books that explore friendship, identity, family, and adolescence through lively, distinctive voices. She has also written the Kingdoms and Empires series, including A Tangle of Gold, as well as middle-grade fiction such as The…

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